Research Collaborations and Academic & Research Technologies

Staff members of Academic & Research Technologies (ART), a department of Information Technology (IT), are available to collaborate with Northwestern researchers in

• writing research proposals for funding,
• partnering with NU faculty in the programming and systems development work of research grants, and
• consulting with NU researchers about promising new technology standards and compute systems for tackling research problems.

Academic & Research Technologies has expertise in a wide range of videoconferencing-related technologies, such as:

• High definition video
• Room design
• Desktop videoconferencing
• Streaming of events between sites using high quality audio/video (e.g. Master's Classes)
  
• Access Grid- based videoconferencing
• Streaming and archiving of videoconferences
  

Academic & Research Technologies also has expertise in a number of current research technologies, including:

• high-resolution imaging and video systems;
• digital workflow systems for research computations;
• parallel processing;
• emerging collaboration platforms;
• scientific visualization displays; and
• digital repositories.

Staff at ART are partners to current NSF, NIH, Augusta Webster, and Mellon Foundation grant projects at the University.